The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-05-12
AT THE GRADED SCHOOL.
CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE THIRD
ANNUAL SESSION.

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CLOSING EXERCISES OF THE THIRD
ANNUAL SESSION.
An Entertaining Program.-The Scholar
ly Address of Rev. DIR. Thomas Hume,
of the University.
On Thursday morning of last week. the
closing exercises Of the third annual session
of the Winston Graded School took place.
By half after ten the capacious assembly
room was thronged with an appreciative
audience.
At IL o'clock she exercises were opened
with prayer by Rev. II. a. Brown The
class exercises followed, conducted by Mr..
Andrew III. Patterson, President of the
class of 'S7. Miss Sallie Grogan was then
introduced who read charming salutatory,
and was followed by Miss Ruth Rominger.
the Historian of the class, in vivacious and
truly Praisewurthy resume of the progress of
the class through the various grades up to
final graduation. She referred in touching
language to the death of the late lamented
DE-. Calvin III. Wiley, whose portrait the
class of this year will contribute to the
School, an exemplary example set by last
years class, whose fine portrait of Gov
William A. Graham, adorned the wall
back of the rostrum.
Miss Phebe Roninger as Class Essayist
was next introduced, her subject being
<'Woman's Work." which she treated in an
entertaining style.
The Glass Poet, Mr.. Earnest \. Wiles
read very creditable poem, through which
there ran vein of vivacous humor
Miss Lizzie Johnston, as Glass Execution
asst, discussed a pleasant little episode en-
titled, "Gone with Handsomer Man"
The Glass Presidents Farewell to Geo
metry," was witty, well written deliver
ance, and was spoken in a good voice ac-
companied by appropriate meditation and
gesture.
Mr.. George t. Brown, as Glass Prophet
made some very amusing predictions of the
future life of each member of the Glass of
'S7.
The Peabody Medals were next presented
by Mr.. William B. Glenn, to Mr.. \. II.
Patterson and Miss Daisy Thompson, who
had attained the highest scholarship of the
class.
Mr.. w. A. Whitaker, presented the Di-
ploInas to the graduates, numbering nine as
follows:
Misses. Sallie Grogan Lily Biting, Ruth
and Phoebe Reminger, Lizzie Johnston,
Daisy Thompson, Andrew H. Patterson,
Ernest A. Wiles and George T. Brown
The address of Rev. Thomas Hume Jr,
D. D., of the State University, next follow
ed He said that he came before his aud
fence not fully recuperated from recent
illness, but enough so, for his hearers to 90
away with the verdict that they had at least
listened to an enthusiastic man Standing
between conservative Salem and progressive
Winston, he wished to present some of the
attractions of our own tongue while not es-
pecially disregarding what had become to
be known as the "dead languages" He
spoke of the rare beauties, to be culled in a
ramble through the literature of the English
language and dwelt especially upon the
marvellous mines of poetic wealth buried
within the works of Milton, the grand old
gentleman, and Shakespeare the student
of human nature par excellence He urged
more general perusual of the works of
these two writers and touched upon the i'm
portance of reading aloud He said that
great attention was given everywhere to
recitations, but that the habit of good read
ing was almost discouraged. He said that
many ministers of the gospel who were ex-
pected to be criterions in correct reading
were sadly remiss in that particular and the
words of holy writ were too often so
read as to convey to the minds of the hear
ers an entirely erroneous impression.
But we cannot further attempt to give a
synopsis of DIR. Humes address, suffice it to
say, we unqualifedly pronounce it the most
scholarly and finished literary address it has
ever been our good fortune to listen to; and
we think this opinion is shared by every one
OF the large audience who followed the elo-
quent gentleman for over an hour without
the slightest manifestation of fatigue.
The entire program prior to DIR. Hume's
address was crisp and original and in very
truth surpassed the graduation exercises of
many older and presumably further ad-
vanced educational institutions.
Report of Police.
A report of the work done by our CITY
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